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The hubbub of big city coffeehouses is indeed not conducive to hacking. If you have the luxury of being able to move around, it's worth checking out coffeehouse
by thebear 14y ago
The hubbub of big city coffeehouses is indeed not conducive to hacking. If you have the luxury of being able to move around, it's worth checking out coffeehouses in small towns. My current favorite in Northern California is the Curly Wolf in Nevada City. Exquisite interior decoration, great people, quiet atmosphere, open til midnight Sun through Thu, til 2am Friday and Saturday. And if you're willing to travel farther, you can even still find hacker's paradise, like the Shot in the Dark in Tucson, AZ: open 24/7. Trust me, it's quiet in there at 3am.
- kayoone 14y agoI live in europe (germany to be exact) and the problem is that coffee shops outside of the city often dont have Wifi, or if they do it isnt free. In the city its usually different, but they are cramped full most of the time and close at 6pm. Also driving around to find a good spot creates too much overhead for me, i will continue to go to coffee shops for drinking a coffee i guess but YMMV of course.
- w1ntermute 14y agoI just tether all the time to get around this. Unless it's a place I regularly go to (home, office, friend's place), I don't even bother messing with wifi. I can have internet on my laptop up and running in seconds by tethering. Other people are awed when they see that I instantly have internet, without having to wrestle with annoying login pages and wifi passwords.
- kayoone 14y agoonly got 300MB of data on my quite expensive plan, so tethering is more like an emergency option :/
- w1ntermute 14y agoAh, that sucks. I've got a grandfathered unlimited 4G data plan on Verizon, on which I've used 15-20 GB of data in a month without any problems.